Benjamin Franklin Project Archive

Ullica Segerstrale, Professor of Sociology and Director of the IIT Camras Scholar Program, will deliver a paper entitled “Creativity and Its Challenges: The Case of the ‘20th-Century Darwin'" at 10:45 am on Friday, April 11, 2014 in the Armour Conference Room in Hermann Hall.

Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and researcher with 15 years of experience driving innovation in the high tech industry. Dr. Bell will speak on the topic of “Culture, Technology and Innovation around the World” on Friday, April 11, 2014, at 7 pm in the Hermann Union Building.

Laura Hosman, of IIT’s Department of Social Science, and Simona Maschi from the Copenhagen Institute of Design, will present at a panel titled “Education for Innovation,” in the Hermann Hall Ballroom on IIT's Main Campus at 4:45 pm on April 11, along with John Zumbrunnen of the University of Wisconsin and Jennifer Philips of Google.

Matthew Shapiro, of IIT’s Department of Social Sciences, will deliver a paper titled “International Collaboration and Green Technology Generation: Assessing the East Asian Environmental Regime,” at IIT’s conference on innovation at 10:45 am on Friday, April 11, 2014, in the Crown Room, Hermann Hall.

The Benjamin Franklin Project at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will host an interdisciplinary conference on innovation on April 10 – 11, 2014, in Hermann Hall on IIT’s Main Campus in Chicago.

Lori Andrews, a distinguished professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent and director of IIT's Institute for Science, Law and Technology, will speak on the topic of “The Effects of Patent Law on the Past, Present, and Future of Innovation” on Friday, April 11, 2014 at 1 pm in the Hermann Union Building.

Paul Starr, the Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will headline the upcoming Infrastructures of Creativity Conference at IIT in April with a keynote address titled "Innovation and Democracy in Post-Industrial America," on April 10, 10:30 am, in the Hermann Hall Ballroom.

The Benjamin Franklin Project at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will host an interdisciplinary conference on innovation on April 10 - 11, 2014, in Hermann Hall on IIT’s Main Campus in Chicago.